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A woman feared to lose her mother in an accident. She's angry because she was on the phone while driving.

"As long as I am angry with my mother, I am spared from feeling fear, or the inverted, inside-out pain of what almost happened."

About the last part, am I right to understand something along these lines :


cela m’évite de ressentir la peur, ou la douleur à rebours de ce qui a failli se produire.
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Je n'ai jamais entendu "inside-out pain." "Inverted pain" me fait penser à une peine qui chamboule sa vie.
What she intends to say, if I understand it correctly :
- she feels inverted pain from the terrible she had : "qui chamboule tout"
- that pain is inside-out (à rebours) because the accident in fact did not happened but could have been
- that pain is inside-out (à rebours) because the accident in fact did not happened but could have been
I get the general idea, but the English still doesn't make much sense to me.
I guess inverted could also mean "intériorisée". Found that example : "The person can only turn inward to experience the pain, and the crushing weight of this inverted pain can eventually lead to suicide."
I guess inverted could also mean "intériorisée".
Yes, it can mean that. I found the quote in question online, almost verbatim, in a book written by Edith Eva Eger, a Hungarian psychologist who survived the Nazi camps. The only difference was that she was speaking about her sister who had narrowly escaped death. To tell you the truth, the English doesn't sound all that natural to me. Do you have any more context?
Bonjour,
The inversion of anger is fear, if that helps...
Est-ce que "inverted" suivi de "pain" voudrait signifier une forme de soulagement du coup?
"or the inverted, inside-out pain of what almost happened."
The person feels anger instead of fear. the fear has been 'inverted', internalized, repressed, and anger is felt instead, anger being more bearable. The person is "spared from feeling fear" by feeling anger.
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